>> IT'S JUST CRAZY HOW HOT IT IS OTHER PLACES. >>> YOU LOOK AT OUR TEMPERATURES AND IT'S GOING TO BE WARM, HOT IN SOME PLACES. >> NOTHING LIKE THAT. >> WE'VE BEEN VERY LUCKY. IT'S BECAUSE OF WHERE THE HEAT DOME HAS BEEN SET UP. WE HAVEN'T LOST THE ONSHORE INFLUENCE AROUND THE BAY AREA. EVEN WHEN IT HEATS UP INLAND, IT DOESN'T LAST LONG. I'VE LIVED INLAND AND IT'S GOTTEN HOT A FEW DAYS, BUT IN A COUPLE DAYS IT BACKS DOWN TO PRETTY MUCH NORMAL TEMPERATURES. THE HEAT RETURNS FOR THE WEEKEND, HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING FROM A DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS PINCHING AT US FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST. THE UPSHOT IS MORE ATMOSPHERE ON TOP OF US MEANS THE ATMOSPHERE WEIGHS MORE, COMPRESSES THE AIR AT GROUND LEVEL AND HEATS IT UP. IT ALSO REALLY SQUASHES THE MARINE LAYER. THE INLAND HEAT PEAKS SUNDAY, BUT LIKE EVERY HEATWAVE THIS SUMMER, THIS ONE WILL BE MERCIFULLY BRIEF FOR INLAND PARTS OF THE BAY AREA. FOR LIVERMORE A HIGH OF 101 SUNDAY AND MID-90s MONDAY, MORE TOLERABLY HOT AND THEN SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES MUCH OF NEXT WEEK, A BABY WARM-UP BY THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND, BUT IT'S JUST BEEN SUCH A PATTERN WE'VE SEEN THESE HEATWAVES ARRIVING EXCLUSIVELY OVER THE WEEKENDS, BUT ONLY LASTING A COUPLE DAYS. WE'LL KEEP AN EYE ON AIR QUALITY AS WE HEAD INTO THE WEEKEND WITH URBAN POLLUTANTS, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THE SMOKE DRIFTING DOWN FROM THE FLAT FIRE IN OREGON WILL STAY JUST OFF THE COAST. A LITTLE BIT OF IT MAKES ITS WAY INTO MENDOCINO COUNTY. THE FIRE IN OREGON IS OVER 30,000 ACRES AND ONLY ABOUT 30% CONTAINED. THE BULK OF THE SMOKE FROM THAT WILL AVOID THE BAY AREA. WHAT DOES MAKE ITS WAY TO OUR SKIES IS MAINLY ELEVATED IN THE ATMOSPHERE AS OPPOSED TO BEING AT GROUND LEVEL. GROUND LEVEL POLLUTANTS TRAPPED MEANS WE'LL SEE AIR QUALITY MOSTLY IN THE MODERATE CATEGORY TOMORROW AND MODERATE EVERYWHERE SUNDAY AND MONDAY. IT'S GROUND LEVEL OZONE THAT'S THE PRIMARY TROUBLEMAKER HEADING THROUGH THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. AS TEMPERATURES BACK DOWN AND THE HEAT DOME RETREATS, GOOD AIR QUALITY BY TUESDAY. TEMPERATURES NOW, BLUE SKIES OVER SAN FRANCISCO, 60s AROUND THE BAY, A FEW 70s, MOSTLY 80s INLAND, UPPER 80s IN LIVERMORE AND CONCORD. THE FOG ALONG THE COAST WILL SPREAD BACK OUT ACROSS THE BAY, PRETTY WIDESPREAD TO BEGIN SATURDAY. INLAND IT DOESN'T LAST LONG AT ALL. AROUND THE BAY WE'LL SEE IMPROVING VISIBILITIES BY MIDMORNING. ALONG THE COAST THE FOG AND LOW CLOUDS HANG OUT UNTIL AT LEAST NOON, BUT I THINK YOU'LL SEE SOME SUNSHINE GLIMMERING THROUGH BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MORE OF THAT SUNDAY. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT DROP DOWN MOSTLY TO THE 50s, WHICH IS NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. HIGHS TOMORROW ARE GOING TO REACH BARELY ABOVE 60 DEGREES ALONG THE COAST, 70s AND 80s DOWN THE PENINSULA AND AROUND THE SOUTH END OF THE BAY, MOSTLY MID- TO UPPER 80s IN THE SANTA CLARA VALLEY, LOW 90s IN MORGAN HILL AND GILROY, LOW 90s FOR MOST OF THE TRI-VALLEY, CLOSE TO 70 IN SAN FRANCISCO, INTO THE MID-70s FOR OAKLAND AND THE EAST BAY, UPPER 80s FOR MOST OF THE NORTH BAY UNTIL YOU GO FARTHER NORTH, FARTHER INLAND TEMPERATURES FARTHER INTO THE 90s. IF YOU'RE HEADING OUT TO THE SONOMA COUNTY FAIR, 90s IN SANTA ROSA SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AND YOU'LL SEE PLENTY OF SUNSHINE BOTH DAYS. THE PEAK OF THE WARMTH SUNDAY, ONLY LOW 70s IN SAN FRANCISCO, CLOSE TO 80 IN OAKLAND WHILE SAN JOSE GETS UP TO AROUND 90. THE NORTH BAY REACHES WELL INTO THE 90s BEFORE EVERYBODY BACKS DOWN TO NEAR NORMAL, SLIGHTLY BELOW TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NEXT WEEK. THE CONTRAST HERE, OVER 100 IN THE TRI-VALLEY SUNDAY, ON
